Past Presidents
ASHG Presidents, 1949-2022
ASHG celebrates the achievements and vision of its past leadership. Read and watch past presidential addresses, linked below.
2009 – Edward McCabe
2008 – Aravinda Chakravarti
2007 – Wylie Burke
2006 – Stephen T. Warren
2005 – Peter H. Byers
2004 – Robert Nussbaum*
2003 – David Valle
2002 – Michael Conneally
2001 – Huntington F. Willard
2000 – Ronald Worton
1999 – Uta Francke
1998 – Arthur Beaudet
1997 – Larry Shapiro
1996 – Charles Epstein
1995 – Judith Hall
1994 – Maimon M. Cohen
1993 – Janet D. Rowley
1992 – Walter E. Nance
1991 – Michael M. Kaback
1990 – C. Thomas Caskey
1989 – L. L. Cavalli-Sforza
1988 – David E. Comings
1987 – Stanley Gartler
1986 – Charles Scriver
1985 – Frank Ruddle
1984 – David L. Rimoin
1983 – John Littlefield
1982 – Margery W. Shaw
1981 – Barbara Bowman
1980 – Leon Rosenberg
1979 – Eldon Sutton
1978 – Alfred Knudson
1977 – Arno Motulsky
1976 – Barton Childs
1975 – John Hamerton
1974 – Victor McKusick
1973 – Eloise Giblett
1972 – John Graham
1971 – Alexander Bearn
1970 – William Schull
1969 – Kurt Hirschhorn
1968 – Irene Uchida
1967 – Bentley Glass
1966 – Philip Levine
1965– Howard Newcombe
1964 – Arthur Steinberg
1963 – James F. Crow
1962 – F. Clarke Fraser
1961 – L. C. Dunn
1960 – C. C. Li
1959 – Madge Macklin
1958 – W. D. Boyd
1957 – Curt Stern
1956 – S. C. Reed
1955 – C. Nash Herndon
1954 – James Neel
1953 – Clarence Oliver
1952 – F. J. Kallmann
1951 – Lee R. Dice
1950 – Laurence Snyder
1949 – H. J. Muller